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Definition of Adpressed
1. Adjective. Pressed close to or lying flat against something. "Igneous rocks...closely appressed by this force"
Definition of Adpressed
1. adpress [v] - See also: adpress
Lexicographical Neighbors of Adpressed
Literary usage of Adpressed
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Catalogue of Marine Polyzoa in the Collection of the British Museum by George Busk (1852)
"Forms a very closely adpressed crust on the outside of a small univalve shell.
42. ... adpressed ..."
2. Journal of Botany, British and Foreign (1867)
"He distinguishes it as follows :—" Spur adpressed, more slender, ovate-oblong,
blunt or emarginate; upper corolla-lip nearly three times as long as the ..."
3. The Forest Flora of North-west and Central India: A Handbook of the by John Lindsay Stewart, Dietrich Brandis (1874)
"... in. long, single, on long filiform peduncles, leaves with indistinct transverse
veins, sheaths persistent, coriaceous, adpressed to branchlets. 2. ..."
4. Catalogue of the African Plants by Friedrich Martin Joseph Welwitsch, Alfred Barton Rendle, William Philip Hiern (1900)
"... dull or almost obscurely green without gloss, those of the third row erect,
adpressed to the stem more or less orbicular and half the length of those in ..."
5. The Flora of British India by Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker (1879)
"Calyx Jf in. long, densely clothed with adpressed bristly hairs ; lowest tooth
... 218, is a form with thin adpressed pubescence and large entire leaflets. ..."
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